Coffee-pot



(No Model.)

W. RACER.

COFFEE POT.

No. 385,880. Patented July 10, 1888.

M 0 m E V N I WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEFIcE.

XVILLIAM RACER, OF HARRISON, ARKANSAS.

COFFEE-POT.

SPECIPICATICN forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,880, dated July 10,1888.

Application filed January 16, 1888. Serial No. 260,879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLTAM RACER, of Harrison, in the county of Boone and State of Arkansas, have invented anew and Improved Coffee-Pot, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming a part thereof, in which- Figure l is a vertical transverse section of my improved coffee'pot; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view,with parts broken away, of the compressor.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

The object of my invention is to provide a coffee-pot for making the extract of the coffee by percolation.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

To the top of the coffee-potA is fitted a funnel, B, formed of the hollow cylindrical part (I, having a flange, b, which rests upon the top of the coffee-pot, and a conical portion, a, con nected with the cylindrical part a, and terminating in the cylindrical part (I, having its lower end closed by a strainer, c. To the cylindrical part (I is fitted a hollow cylinder, 0, which is longer than the cylindrical part d, and which is open at the lower end and closed at the upper end.

In the center of the hollow cylinder 0 is supported an inverted cone, f, by attachment to the under surface of the top of the cylinder, and the sides and top of the cylinder 0 above the cylindrical part (Z of the funnel B are pro- The handle it is attached to the top of the cylinder 0. To the top of the funnel B is fitted a cover, t, and to (No model.)

thereby compressing the coffee and forcing it upward into the cylinder around the inverted cone f. The ground coffee is thus held securely in place in the lower part of the funnel B, and water poured into the said funnel per- U colates through the coffee, dissolving out the soluble portions, while the insoluble parts remain as a spongy mass in the cylinder 0. The eoverj upon the spout D prevents the escape of the aromatic steam of the coffee.

My improved apparatus, which I havehcre described in connection with the making of coffee, is adapted to any use where extracts are to be made by percolation.

Having thus described my invcntiou,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a coffee-pot, the funnel B, having a supporting-flange at its upper end anda cylindrical lower end, (1, having a strainer, 0, forming its bottom, in combination with the bottomless cylinder 0, of greater length than the cylinder (1, fitting therein, and having perforationsg in its top and side walls above the upper end of said cylinder, the inverted imperforate compressing'conef, depending from the top of cylinder 0, and the handle h on top of said cylinder, substantially as set forth.

\VILLIAM. RACER.

Vitnesses:

R. F. KING, J r., W. T. KENDRIcK. 

